74 \:. ,-... .0;>9 -" \' W'.:. \' ,,/' \. ;, -t'- '+.i; i> '<iN- ... . ojII-. r H MASTER,. TH 18 A In the Caribbean where the sky IS as blue as the water, there 5 an Island that can be de- scribed as a living painting. Curaçao. It possesses all the vibrance of a Van Gogh master- piece. And all the beautiful subtleties of a Rembrandt. Wdlem tad its capital, IS a faithful copy of Amsterdam with thi<; exception: its colorful buildings suggest that a Dutch artist used the rainbow as his palette. Our people come in all different hues, too. For they come from around the world. So feasting on exotic di<;he from exotic lands is not unusual And neither is finding the world's goods at prices almo t too good to be true When you're not shopping or dining, you could be sunning swimrning and "ailing. Or trying your luck in our casinos. And letting our night life become a part of your life. Come. Be a part of this Dutch Masterpiece in the Caribbean For more information and d free color brochure. Write or call: Curaçao Tourist Board 604 Fifth Ave. New York N.Y. 10020 (212) 265-0230 of Ichthyological AssocIates, who had long since become part of the project in ..1 more general way, marked off a grid of sixty square miles and beg ln what their founder, Edward Rane}, described as "the best-fin.-lnced, the most intense study that's ever been done of a limited area in the ocean." I aney, emeritus professor of zoolog} at Cornell and an authority on the striped bass, the bluefish, lnd the American shad, had pI eviou ly set up other studies attempting to counsel the designers of nuclear plants and to S lVe the lives of fish. Very few fish hd vc actually been killed by the heated wa- ter emerging from power plants. l"'he) die instead from the lack of it-as the} did recently in Forked River, in Ne\v J ersLY, when, in winter, the nuclear plant there tempordrily shut down. Many thousands of fish thdt would have been farther south but hdd been attracted to the warm effi uen t of the power plant died in the suddenlr cold wate}. Such .-In event would be most unlikely at the f\tlantic Generating St ltion, since on<: reactor would al- W.-lYS be kept running. The tons of fish that died a few year" ago at the nuclear station at Indidn Point, New York, 'Y\Tere attracted into channe]" th.::lt had been built to conduct watcr from the edge of the Hudson River to the Consolidated Edison COlnpan" 's intake screens. The fish went into thL channels, apparently, because the} liked the shelter and they liked the feel of the flow of the indrawn watel. The) would turn and face it, and swim against it, and keep on swim- ming in place until they \-vere so tired they could not swim out. The} then went up against the screens and died. Consolidated Edison moved the screens out to the river. The fish kill would not have happened if the behavior of fish had been taken in to aCCOUIl t in the initial design. Raney and his ichthyologists signifi- cantly influenced certain basic design choices for the At1antic Generating Station, and refinelnents would no doubt come along with thL continu- ing study. In tanks, they tested the swimn1ing speed and swimming strength of various species. The) rec- (nnmended that the water-intake ve- locity be kept below a foot per second. l his would require siÀ screens PL I plant, each fourteen feet wide and twenty-seven feet deep. The ichthyolo- gists also recommended that the heated water be dIscharged rapidlv, since a jet of water would repel fish. Such a jet-sent out through pipes in the breakwater-would create a 111ixing